The goakeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and three attackers with the most votes then went into the the official World XI.

As you can see here, the line-up was pretty much as expected.

FifPro's FIRST XI

However, once the 11 had been picked, that left 44 players on the initial shortlist - so someone at FifPro had the ingenious idea of arranging them into four other XIs.

Incredibly, that means we went all the way down to a FifPro FIFTH XI. And as tends to happen when any football club wheels out their fifth-choice side, there are a few sympathy selections in there…

FifPro's FIFTH XI

There are plenty of top players in there. David Silva, Douglas Costa, Thiago Alcanatara, Diego Godin… all totally fair enough.

But Iker Casillas, who had a pretty awful 2015? John Terry and Wayne Rooney, both of whom would struggle to get in a Premier League XI right now?

And Branislav Ivanovic? BRANISLAV IVANOVIC? Given how he's played in recent months, he's lucky to still be in the Chelsea side, let alone a global XI of any sort. He's even at left-back, for God's sake.

Still, it is the fifth team, so perhaps we shouldn't be too harsh. Instead, let's take on the interesting task of comparing the second and third XIs to the "winning" team.

The second XI has plenty of talent - but looks decidedly unbalanced:

FifPro's SECOND XI

Where as, despite a slight problem in the full-back area, the third XI has a slightly more solid look to it:

FifPro's THIRD XI

So, the question is… if we hosted a hypothetical round-robin tournament, which team do you think would emerge victorious?